A comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in Taiwan and the United States, as well as in immigrant Asian American writing.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation 1
1 / The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism 21
2 / “Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces”: Stein’s American Allegories and the End of Progress 44
3 / “Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics”: Hsia Yü’s “Underground” Poetry 80
4 / “For the Other Overlapping Time”: Pound’s Ideogramic Universalism and Cha’s Countermodernist Translation 113
Conclusion / The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics 148
Notes 153
Works Cited 171
Index 181